Your Route is Toilet Paper

One of the oddest episodes to emerge in pandemic times is how people caught the panic-shopping bug before ever catching covid-19. This particular sickness manifested as an inexplicable urge to buy butt-loads of toilet paper. It’s unclear why toilet paper became so coveted in covid. It’s not as though Hershey squirts and colon blows were symptoms of the virus, unless you were actually eating BBQ’d civet meat off the streets of Wuhan. On the eve of covid-19’s arrival in Colorado, like many others I went out to stock up on supplies before hunkering down in my Western Slope bunker. Our family happened to be blessed with a half-full sack of toilet paper from a pre-pandemic Costco run, so I wasn’t worried about running out of shit tickets. Nor was I, the most rational person I know, concerned about catching the panic-shopping bug. Upon entering the store, however, I suddenly felt […]
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Andrew Bisharat

Andrew Bisharat is a writer and climber based in western Colorado. He is the publisher of Evening Sends and the co-host of The RunOut podcast.

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